Meeting Topic: 1st Planning Meeting for LaidOffCampNY

Attendees:

• Michael E, Gruen
• Peter Chislett
• Noel Hidalgo
• Arathi Ramappa
• Amanda Lee Anderson
• Nate Heasley
• Eric Yoon
• Jonah Keegan 

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Time/Date/Location: 

5 -6:30 PM/Feb. 9th, 2009/27 W 20th St.,  #901

Notes

Thanks @wearenom Michael Gruen for hosting the meeting!

Overview of Event:

• Number of attendees: approximately 100 - 300 people
• 2 day Unconference event on a Friday and Saturday
• Lunch and Breakfast will be served on both days
• A Happy Hour/Socializing/Job Fair will take place on one of the evenings
• Target Audience:
  • Financial and Digital Technology Sectors
  • Creative Sectors
  • Grassroots Organizers
  • Freelancers
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Start-Ups
• Areas that will be covered:
  • Career Change/Job Transition
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Freelancing
• Sponsors
  • Sponsors will be needed for the lunch, breakfast, and evening happy hour event
  • Sponsors should be asked for approximately $200-$300 or more
  • We should have VCs and Recruiters sponsor the evening happy hour event.

Date: Tentatively April 3-4 or April 17-18

This will depend on the availability of a space. There was a general consensus that we should shoot for the month of April.

We have decided that the event will probably last two days and it will be preferably on a Friday and Saturday.

Venue: 

Two venues have been noted as possible locations:

Polytechnic Institute of NYU:

• They have space that can be used free of charge
• There is access to a 300 person amphitheater
• There are classrooms that can hold approximately 30 people

Pace University:

• They prefer to hold events after the semester ends on May 12th
• No outside caterers are allowed.
• The cost for meals is $40 per person for two days.

Action Items:

• Restructure text describing the event
• Develop a form that guages interest for the event
• Create a set of subtopics for the event
• Create a list of potential sponsors
• Create a list of presenters/facilitators for the event
• Create a list of possible locations for the happy hour event
• Figure out what dates Pace and Polytechnic have open in April
• Twitter : @laidoffcampny #laidoffcampny

NEXT MEETING: Feb. 24th. 2009 Place TBD